Summary Raj Long, the Senior Regulatory Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the problems in developing treatments for dementia. The independent “Finding a Path for the Cure for Dementia” report is a contribution to the G8 Dementia … Continue reading →

Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund at the World Health Organisation’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference. The Dementia Discovery Fund will be used to finance dementia research with the … Continue reading →

Summary Recent research into transgenic mice (and early, small-scale investigations with people) suggests that the anti-depressant citalopram could be used to slow the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. This work in the United States appears to show that citalopram may counteract … Continue reading →